Liberty, Vocation, and Responsibility in the Work of Max Weber
ABSTRACT
On the centenary of Weber's two "vocation lectures" ("Science as a Vocation" [1917] and "Politics as a Vocation" [1919]), conferees used these works, along with others by Weber, to explore the important place the idea of a "calling" had in Weber's overall thought, and how this concept related to his broader work on how to be a free and responsible individual in the context of modernity.
READING LIST
Conference Readings
Weber, Max. The Vocation Lectures. Edited by David Owen and Tracy B. Strong. Translated by Rodney Livingstone. Indianapolis: Hackett Publishing Company, 2004.
Weber, Max. The Protestant Ethic and the "Spirit" of Capitalism and Other Writings. Edited by Peter Baehr and Gordon C. Wells. New York: Penguin Books, 2002.
Weber, Max. From Max Weber: Essays in Sociology. Edited by H. H. Gerth and C. Wright Mills. New York City: Oxford University Press, 1946.
Weber, Max. Political Writings. Edited by Peter Lassman and Ronald Speirs. New York: Cambridge, 1994.
Weber, Max. The Essential Weber: A Reader. Edited by Sam Whimster. London: Routledge, 2003.